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Economist & Prof at Harvard | 1st-gen college grad | Education, inequality | Shitposts are in a Boston accent | Former union organizer NYT Columns https://www.nytimes.com/by/susan-dynarski https://linktr.ee/susan.dynarski www.susandynarski.com
Only my children are allowed to send me voice memos
Anyone else it’s going straight in the garbage
This is very fun
And (as I have now pointed out for 25 YEARS) he ranked them by how important he found them
1) women don’t want STEM jobs
2) not enough super-smart women
3) socialization & discrimination
To echo previous comments in this thread: how does this contradict my post?
That shift was the entire profession, not just NBER. NBER reflects what the elite professorate is doing.
Shoulder season in Cambridge
No coat and snow
Illustrative article about the intersection of science, policy, causality
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
To give you a sense of how big a deal it is to me:
Summers was my PhD advisor’s PhD advisor
This is a major development. The American Economic Association (AEA) and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) are the most powerful groups of economists in the world.
“Skoot” is what my Golden does to clean his butt on the floor
No, it’s a change and it’s new. Leave <> expulsion
And I was a math-loving high school student hearing my usually feminist dad speculate that maybe Summers had a point because he was the president of Harvard...
Still got an econ phd, though. Better late than never, NBER.
I was a junior science professor at a Southern institution with a lot of dinosaurs and a few puffed-up junior (male) colleagues who ate up the Summers viewpoint. Damage was widespread.
25 years ago, I was a very anxious junior female economics professor at Harvard
while our President Larry Summers was telling the world how women weren’t very smart
Wish the arc bent a bit more sharply
According to MS Now, the new Epstein dump revealed the names of 21 victims.
I'm happy to report that they also failed to redact phone numbers for Larry Summers, Kathy Ruemmler, and a bunch of other bad actors.
Happy international women’s day!
1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.
First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP
To give you a sense of how big a deal this is: Summers’ PhD advisor made NBER what it is today
Got a new paper coming out soon with a lot of co-authors but this one has us beat
See also postsec education
“Our findings indicate that capacity constraints, rather than poor school matching, primarily drive educational inequality.”
www.nber.org/papers/w34936
Reading this
It’s full of sharp insights and even sharper snark
I am an economist so I guess I get to ask: Why do you consider it bollocks?
My take:
The piece is largely about distributional preferences, which vary by economist.
Author is making the point that econs w/ a particular set of prefs have dominated the policy convo.
Seems straightforward.
10/10 take. no notes
Ten years, convos with male friends telling me it is insane to think Trump is worse than Cruz
"Since Liberation Day -- the President's last big, bold set of promises when he told us everything was about to be magical -- we've lost jobs. We've gone backwards...
I'm going to call that a jobs recession."
You related to Margaret Urquhart, Evan?
I’m relying on *looking out the window* to keep myself updated
This was over an hour ago and our first responders have wrapped up a lot. Can still see vehicles stationed there.
